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Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin learned a few things in her old job running the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama. First, the job didn't just entail "sewing up the shark bites" - there were plenty of "land sharks" (regulators and red-tape dispensers) to fend off, too. Second, EHRs are an absolute must-have.
The recently formed Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media has established the Social Media Health Network, a group dedicated to using social media to promote healthcare. The network was announced Tuesday at the Second Annual Social Media Summit in Jacksonville, Fla.
A group from Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University is developing virtual technology designed to help young adults with mental illnesses better manage their care.
State Medicaid offices scramble to set up systems and methods to oversee pending flow of health IT subsidies to medical practices.
Private foundation Lilly Endowment funds center to tackle intersection of law, social science and e-health information.
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is rolling out new healthcare data and storage management solutions, developed by Woburn, Mass.-based BridgeHead Software, as it implements plans around improving operational efficiency, cost savings and patient care.
Virtual Radiologic (vRad), a national radiology practice and developer of radiologist workflow technology, will acquire competitor NightHawk Radiology in a $170 million deal.
ONC completes nationwide system of 62 regional health IT centers designed to help health care providers switch to EHRs, Blumenthal says.
Two and a half years after its launch, Google Health has unveiled a "top-to-bottom" redesign – with a new focus on attracting a users who want to "actively manage their health and wellness."
When word got out this past summer that Google and Verizon had negotiated a "secret pact" (as one alarmist account put it) to essentially bypass the concept of net neutrality – which holds that all online data should be conveyed at the same speed, regardless of whose content it is – the reaction from bloggers and journalists was immediate and impassioned.